In the role of Quality Assurance Expert, you will serve as owner of full quality assurance related to partner projects, system changes, marketing offers, and business rules. Additionally, role is responsible for building continuous regression test strategy and execution on partner sites. Responsible for creating an end-to-end test plan and test cases; executing the plan, cases and managing all activities in the plan to ensure that all the objectives are met, and that the solution works as expected. The solution should be tested in terms of functionality, performance, reliability, stability, and compatibility with other legacy- and / or external systems and functionality.

This position follows a Hybrid schedule with two in-office days per week at our Cambridge, Ontario location.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Proactively leads and identifies QA opportunities and helps resolve new business challenges.
• Develop and drive a high-level QA strategy, as well as take a hands-on approach to executing that strategy.
• Lead efforts to develop, document, and implement applicable QA processes and procedures to provide more effective quality methods within the group in support of providing quality products.
• Be highly committed to create automation for regression and feature testing and maintaining frequency of automation capabilities.
• Ability to leverage multiple testing tools and capabilities and proactively recommend testing applications.
• Create, implement, maintain, and develop documentation to support all quality assurance efforts.
• Develop quality test plans and test cases, and lead in setting and maintaining the standards for Quality Assurance test documentation.
• Collaborate with team to improve overall quality by emphasizing defect prevention.
• Maintain a high degree of error free programs, procedures, systems, and documentation on all releases.
• Anticipate potential problems by creating exhaustive test scenarios that ensure comprehensive testing.
• Document all testing results in conjunction with test plans.
• Identify and analyze defects/test results and remain engaged with appropriate resources throughout the chain of events leading to resolution.
• Identify areas for test improvement through analysis, experience, and use of metrics.
• Communicate critical issues and status updates in a timely manner.
• Perform SOAP and REST APIs testing using XML and JSON. Create UAT documents for testing of client and product launches, system, and fulfilment changes.
• Perform UAT and PPV (Postproduction Validation) testing. Facilitate and utilize best practices for user acceptance testing including creation, socialization, and execution of UAT/PPV plans to verify all configurations, changes render visually successful on partner test sites and live sites.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

• Bachelor’s degree or combination of education, training, and relevant work experience
• Three (3) to five (5) years of experience building test plans and overseeing testing strategies
• Experience creating and executing end-to-end test plans and test cases.
• Proficiency with MS Office suite
• Experience with SoapUI or Postman
• Skilled in XML, APIs, UAT and PPV (Postproduction Validation) testing
• HTML/CSS, SQL, FileMaker Pro knowledge preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence across various internal and external partners.
• Fluent in English

What we offer

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

What we offer
Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

63341 | Operations | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.
We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.
Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.